Corvette Comeback

[Llewthepoet]

I think this is a clear case for karma!<br><br><a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/nyreg ... r=homepage' target='_blank'>A Stolen Love Is Found, 37 Years Down the Road</a><br><!--QuoteBegin-MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times+ Jan 17 2006--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times @ Jan 17 2006)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Alan Poster had been going through a rough time that winter. A Brooklyn native and a 26-year-old guitar salesman, he had just divorced and moved from Queens to a 21st Street studio in Chelsea. He bought himself a flashy treat that he could barely afford but could not resist: a blue Corvette.<br><br>He had owned it for only two or three months when it was stolen from a parking garage on 23rd Street. It was Jan. 22, 1969.<br><br>Years passed, and there were other cars, but he never forgot that 1968 Corvette. "Probably the only car I've ever really loved," Mr. Poster, now 63, said in an interview last week. "That car and my new life started together."<br><br>The new life took him to California.<br><br>Turns out, the car followed.<br><br>Almost 37 years after the Corvette was stolen, Mr. Poster got a call last month that it had been recovered, just days before it was supposed to be shipped to a buyer in Sweden. It was flagged during a routine Customs Service check of the vehicle identification number, sending two New York City detectives on a long-shot search through thousands of crime reports to connect the car to its first owner.<br><br>"We can call this a miracle," Mr. Poster said. "I stand in the shower going, 'Why me?' Has anything like this ever happened to you?"<br><br>The car is to be returned to Mr. Poster today, at a news conference in Carson, Calif. It is silver now, with a red interior, and the engine was replaced at some point. Inexplicably, it has no transmission. "Up until this moment, I thought it was chopped up and shipped away," Mr. Poster said. "It's in great shape, I understand." He said he does not plan to drive it much. "I am going to be a collector of a Corvette."<br><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br><span style='color:#64008D'><b>Mod Note:</b> The post was edited to repair the truncated QUOTE tag and to add a link to the full text of the article.</span>

[Richard K Niner]

Whoops!

[Gizensha]

Yay for broken pages.

[Rooster]

I like the story, but the page made my head go funny

[Tom Flapwell]

EDIT: I want to delete this post, but can't.

[Zaaphod]

Amazing, really, that he got his car back after being stolen so long ago.<br>